Comments by "" (@shauncameron8390) on "Why Germany is Rich But Germans are Poor" video.

  1.  @aymaneelassali1656  In Germany's case, the people are slaves to the state.
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  2. What capitalism? Germany is barely capitalist at all. The problem is too much socialism.
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  3. This is what is meant by "tax the rich."
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  4. No. The answer is standard socialist fare.
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  5. Not at all. Germany hasn't fully let go of the Nazi and DDR ways of doing things.
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  6. Actually no. Wealth gaps widen under left-wing liberal leadership along with inflation and debt.
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  7.  @warcrimeconnoisseur5238  With debt, inflation, higher crime, etc. as side-effects.
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  8. Germany was free to turn down the Marshal Plan and do its own rebuilding but chose the opposite.
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  9. Exactly.
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  10. Socialism has wealth inequality as well. Namely between the political elite, well-connected and everyone else.
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  11. How taxing "the rich" hurts the poor in the long run benefiting the wealthy.
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  12. And interestingly, Chavez died a billionaire with his daughter through inheritance being currently the wealthiest person in the country.
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  13. That is until there is no more wealth to tax and the middle and working classes become the new rich to tax.
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  14. Germany had National Socialism and USSR-styled communism.
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  15. LOL. East Germany was a Soviet vassal state pre-Reunification.
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  16. Nazi and DDR.
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  17. Yet they swear they have love for them. LOL
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  18. Not in Cuba or Venezuela or most African countries where the government is the ultra-rich.
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  19.  @xxcybertruckxx2805  Because even by Marx's own admission, socialism just simply cannot work without capitalism to give it the illusion of viability.
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  20. <considering they live paycheck to paycheck. > Because they live beyond their means.
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  21.  @xxcybertruckxx2805  East Germany did. Was and still is poorer than West Germany.
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  22. After 50 years of economic mismanagement and living beyond its means making austerity inevitable.
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  23. And watch the country suffer in the long run.
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  24. Austerity is the consequence of economic mismanagement governments trying to spend money they don't have.
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